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    EASY RYDER

    Sep 13, 2021 7 minutes
    Image: Alicia Canter/Guardian/eyevine

    Shaun Ryder has made it to the age of 59 in spite of an appetite for narcotics that ranks among the most extraordinary in rock and roll history. And today he is as productive as he has ever been: successfully juggling parallel careers with Nappy Mondays and Black Grape while finding time to release a solo album. St’s called Visits From Future Technology and is filled with sundrenched bangers, many of them laced with the euphoric grooves that Ryder has been synonymous with since the Nineties. The album is also rich with the surreal lyricism and psychedelic poetry you’d expect from Ryder. Lead single Mumbo Jumbo ranks among one of his greatest ever efforts, combining references to Top Of The Pops, electric socks, calling the cops and a protagonist who “likes her music in the key of death”.

    Sn 2021 Ryder is as popular with the British public as he has ever been. Those of us in our 40s still love him for his Madchester exploits when we were just little ‘uns in baggy jeans and floppy hats; but our children – and our parents – are just as likely to know him from his show-stealing turns on with his old

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